Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank, You can compare them when everything apart from the sensor and supporting hardware is identical, including being made by the same company, as it is in several of my microscope cameras. You can't do it with still cameras. Marty On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net> wrote: > OK.. let's try to straighten this out..... > > Digi-cameras are systems. ?They contain a sensor, some following HW, then > some SW/FW, then are transported magically to your computer where some more > SW is used to give you an "image". ?You view that image on a CRT, LCD, or > print ( or something else, irrelevant). ?That display element is also > connected to a computer of sorts with its SW/FW or whatever you wish to > call > it. > > You can not separate out the sensor as better or worse. ?They are part of > the total system. ?Dependent on the manufacturers' ?efforts, you will get > DIFFERENT results from different sensors, FW, SW, Display, Computer program > FW and SW, etc. > > You see differences because the systems are designed with different goals > and constraints. > > Say that you prefer the results of the Canon D1xMk9 ( or whatever) over the > Nikon D700V3 when used on a single display and a single program on your > computer .and I can accept that. ?You prefer that total system. > > Say that a CMOS sensor is not as good as or different to a CCD sensor is > useless drivel-talk. > > > Frank Filippone, ex-Electrical Engineer > red735i at earthlink.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >